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Read the manual. That will tell you the expected battery life. Then again, manufacturers hype their products, so record the cat/dog/goldfish for however long it takes for the battery to go flat. That way you'll know how long the battery will last. Just remember to charge it before hand and afterwards.

Read the manual. That will tell you the expected battery life. Then again, manufacturers hype their products, so record the cat/dog/goldfish for however long it takes for the battery to go flat. That way you'll know how long the battery will last. Just remember to charge it before hand and afterwards.

Er yes, that will be my fallback plan if no one has anything more helpful than "work it out for yourself", thanks.

So far I've figured out that switching wi-fi off will extend the battery life, but I was wondering if there was anything else specific about the settings that will extend a charge.

I can get about 2 to 2 and half hour out of a battery at 720p. I've just ran the setting I like to be honest. I'm guessing dropping the resolution further might extend this but as I have a total of 3 batteries its never been a problem. What size memory card are you using? Mine usually takes up about 1.9Gb per 15 mins of video so you need a decent sized card to record hours of footage (I use a 64Gb one).

Life is like riding a bicycle: you don't fall off unless you stop pedaling.

My first gen unit will record for a bit over 2.5 hrs on one charge using a 16Gb card. I bought a second battery and card to extend that to between 5 and 5.5 hours. Best to switch off any wifi/bluetooth etc with the latest ones to get the best battery life. If you stop and start the unit a lot, it will decrease battery a bit, best to start it and leave it to run. I also switched off the red flashing light (every little helps eh?)

I have mounted mine under the bars since it seemed to interfere with GPS reception on the Garmin when I mounted it above, if you do this, set it to "upside down" mode so the footage comes out the right way up and you don't have to flip it in editing.

My first gen unit will record for a bit over 2.5 hrs on one charge using a 16Gb card. I bought a second battery and card to extend that to between 5 and 5.5 hours. Best to switch off any wifi/bluetooth etc with the latest ones to get the best battery life. If you stop and start the unit a lot, it will decrease battery a bit, best to start it and leave it to run. I also switched off the red flashing light (every little helps eh?)

I have mounted mine under the bars since it seemed to interfere with GPS reception on the Garmin when I mounted it above, if you do this, set it to "upside down" mode so the footage comes out the right way up and you don't have to flip it in editing.

There will be some from within the housing, so some padding there should help. I also get some noise from the brake cable outers slapping the camera. It all goes away if you find a freshly surfaced road, that's awesome.

Try and work out where footage will start to look interesting. For example rolling along on your own will be boring but attacking your mate on box hill will be interesting.

The next thing is that all footage looks rubbish until it's edited and the key to editing is to Cut, Cut, Cut and Cut some more. If in doubt, leave it out. I would suspect that from 30mins footage you'll maybe get a 2 minute video? Not sure it this works but for example this is my recent ski trip - 5 days of skiing resulted in a 4 minute movie (and I bet most of you don't make it to the end...) - https://vimeo.com/152261960

Another thing to think about is that if you upload the video anywhere you'll need to find some free music, any popular song will be flagged. YouTube has a library of stuff you can use but a lot of it can be pretty mickey mouse. I wanted to use an Eels song over that but I couldnt upload it anywhere...(The other thing I can see now is that the auto-tune filter I used in GoPro Studio is far too dark...

the final challenge is to try to find someone who actually wants to watch your videos, particularly when , like mine, they are mostly from a bar-mount and consist entirely of road , hedge and sky with an occasional lycra-clad bottom.
sorry to be depressing , I am sure yours will be much better. Bound to be , really.
Actually you should try a hemet mount, at least you can then point at the interesting things. I find the problem then is the film is so wobbly it makes viewers nauseous (not bored , or so they said).

Probably best to just give it back to your brother and save yourself the hassle of faffing around with the camera, and then having a memory card filled with hours of footage of other cyclists backs you don't know that even you can't be arsed to watch back.